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Inspiring TV with Lori Brooks · Inspiring Stories

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Thank you for listening to Pictures Media Radio, your hay you everything to me?
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Oh world, strange night utter, Oh well a bad stop. I
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just need so you SHP. Welcome back everyone. Okay, it was really
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cool when you run into somebody who does a lot of the same work that
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you do and you get the trade shows. So anyway, I'm talking about
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Laurie Brooks and Laurie Brooks also has The Small Business Show with Laurie Brooks,
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and that show showcases a lot of what entrepreneurs need to succeed and help them
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grow their their small business into something that actually helps change communities. Okay,
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So the show was originally launched as a podcast in an effort to help entrepreneurs
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share their stories and create new business ideas they Laurie now has over one hundred
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thousand listeners and has hosted Previous guests such as Susan Bennett, John Lee Dumas
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of Entrepreneur on Fire, Bernard Schooner, the creator of the f r f
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I d Chip, Pat Flynn with Small Passive Income, and many more have
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been added to her list of guests and show the impact that her show has
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had. So we're gonna have her guests on our show and hopefully, uh,
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she'll have me as a guest on hers. So let's see how this
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goes. Well, let's welcome Lord to the show. Laurie. It is
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exciting to finally meet you. I've had a line phone laws and and everything,
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but is like to actually get to meet you is like this is this
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is like really cool. So I know that doing especially doing a TV show,
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it takes a lot of work, a lot of planning and everything,
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and so much stuff has to go behind the scenes and probably even tons of
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fundraising, you know whatever, it takes it to get it out there,
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right, So why don't we start with how did you get started doing this
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show? How did you get started on this certainly so the show originated a
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podcast many many years ago, back into odd twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,
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I launched a podcast and you know, recorded a couple of episodes with different
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guests. I was far too nerve wrecked to release any of those episodes,
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so it was you know, another year or two of you know, hemming
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and hawing over whether or not I was actually going to launch the podcast before
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I actually moved forward with doing so, and I really launched it as a
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marketing tool for my consulting practice with financial advisors. So again, even though
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the show was launched, I wasn't truly marketing the show. I wasn't really
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you know, promoting it to anyone. I wasn't realistically sharing it be on
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the time of little community that I started off with, you know, amongst
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other financial advisors that I knew, just as a podcast that was kind of
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sharing the journey of entrepreneurs in general. Once I had the show up and
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running and it was a regular feature, I was then asked by someone if
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I was interested in turning the podcast asked into a television show, and I
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was taken aback and quite surprised by the opportunity, and upon further review,
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realized that it was actually an opportunity that I could launch Embassy with in a
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so long manner versus going through the network that was looking for a contract,
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of which it wasn't necessarily too excited about. I didn't realize that the opportunity
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to launto television channel was something that I could self produce, And once I
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realized that it was, it was something that it took some role planning and
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you know, studying to figure out but then I moved forward with launching the
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Roku channel, and it was about six months later that I then launched the
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Amazon channel. So wow, so you're on Roku and you're on Amma,
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so we are potentially somebody could could could look for the Small Business Show with
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Laurie Brooks on their Prime That's correct, That's correct. They can just tell
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their remote to turn Laurie Brooks on and I will appear magically. I like
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that magically. The You know what I love about the Internet now is is
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that all these electrimes gathered together and poof, there you are. Right,
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rules and ones are pretty impressive. Yeah, exactly, we've been in't not
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sound too much like techy Geese because somebody might get the wrong relative. I'm
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not that techy. I try to hide it some days. Goodness, I
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know for myself that I do a lot of a lot of editing. Did
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you have to hire editors and in like crew to help you out with this?
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So I've actually gone through a couple of different editors, to be honest.
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When I first started, I was really fearful of hiring an editor.
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One of my personal one of the ways that I moved through business is to
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personal knowledge prior to payment. So before I actually hire on a contractor,
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consultant or a team member, I make sure to kind of take the time
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to actually learn the skill myself. Be this way, I know what it
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is I'm actually paying for it in the end, be it web development,
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video editing, marketing, whatever it be. I try to gain that knowledge
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myself in some way, shape or form, even if it's the minute end,
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you know, just to have a thirty thousand foot view of the skills
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and the processes that will be used in order to produce whatever it is I'm
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looking for. So I started off creating an editing a show on my own.
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I did hire on a couple of different editors that I felt did a
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decent job, but I personally was inconsistent with my production in general of the
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show. So it made it really difficult to work with contractors if I myself
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was not being consistent with what I was doing. So I've definitely slopped back
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to personal production a couple of times, and now as I'm growing the team,
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we have hired on, you know, a production assistant who does help
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in the back end here and there with different pieces of the show. But
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the majority of the shows have been personally produced, and I, unlike yourself,
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am not at all verse in the audio editing. Apologize now for all
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the horrific episodes I've ever produced, like the worst audio possible, because because
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it was it was you know, self production for a long time, and
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the audio piece is one thing that for some reason for me, I just
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can't seem to tweak it. Ever, Michael, you farm my still than
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I do they. But I could, I could tell you that the secret
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to that and depending on how back in the old school of of of of
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R and B and hip hop music you actually go, I could, I
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could throw a couple of names out there and say that they helped teach me
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by slapping my hands. But we're not going to go that way because the
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audio thing. Uh, I've started to my first my first job actually doing
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audio wiz in like nineteen ninety. Wow, that's awesome. So you can
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think of who some of the hip hop artists were then, I'm not happy
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to just do some studying of you nowen So yeah, trying to grab that
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personal knowledge again and eventually figure it out. But no, so because because
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you said you were also in the financial world and you'd and you'd like to
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learn and learn, and you've you've had two teachers and coaches are probably some
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of the things that you did You've also had along the way, right,
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So yeah, yeah, So I am in the financial world. At one
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point, prior to actually consulting, I was an associate financial world, so
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I was licensed with my life, accident and health insurance licenses. And then
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I was diagnosed Crown's disease in two thousand and nine and at that point,
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to me, having a corporate overhead of any sort was just not like the
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option for my personal journey. So at that point I began helping other financial
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advisors that I knew that we're in the industry that I knew needed, you
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know, a little bit of back end assistance in some way should perform,
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and that evolved into the consulting practice that I'm now running today. Very cool,
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So it isn't just television glaming glitz. It's also real financial planning and
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the numbers and the plans that go along with that. Right Well, for
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the financial advisors, I'm not actually doing financial planning for them. We do
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operations and procedures to grow their financial practice. So what I'm doing is really
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putting their business together to help them grow so that they can actually scale and
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move forward in their own financial services practice. So growing from an individual sales
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advisor to a management wealth advisor is really the path that my client state.
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Okay, so how did you How did you go from that to creating something
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that's actually seen in your community with over one hundred thousand viewers and listeners.
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Again, it was, you know, the the interest in the podcast itself,
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the attempt to start there with kind of the marketing tool, and then
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the interest was brought on by another network host who again had kind of introduced
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me to the idea of hosting a television show. They felt that the podcast
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would be a great transition into a television show. I personally was extremely nervous
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about it. I'm extremely camera shy, Michael. I know it may not
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come across that way, but the anxiety is so real, and so,
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you know, for quite some time, it actually started off as just you
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know, the audio podcast just being you know, still shots images, little
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pictures and so forth, and it really took me some time to kind of
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work up to being on screen and even to this day, like literally Michael
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I'm gonna be so honest, just because I think it's important for people to
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really understand the entrepreneurial journey and the reality of these things. Like before you
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and I got on this call, believe that I was sitting here like,
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Okay, did I finish my makeup? Did I finish my hair? Do
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I look okay in the damma? Is my screen looking or like it's still
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having that my new level of anxiety because I think it's a realistic thing for
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a lot of people, regardless as to whether or not you know, I'm
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doing this on a regular basis. It's not something that has disappeared. It's
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something that still remains, but to just kind of work through it as you
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move forwards. So yeah, I know. It was really just it was
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a podcast, and through the interest and you know, the the introduction to
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it, I then recognized that a Roku in Amazon Television channel were things that
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were very easily uh produced and things that I was capable of managing in the
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same manner that I was producing the podcast, only it was going to provide
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a far wider reach, you know, in a global manner versus you know,
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the real localized manner that the podcast had been Yeah. So yeah,
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so I'll fig you in a couple of hints that the person on the other
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side of this camera is introvert, and oh my god, you gotta keep
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like make sure everything's just straight right ways that when I get to the editor,
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I can we quickly get it done. So, okay, one hundred
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thousand plus and still growing audience, how'd you do it? Yea? It
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becoming consistent. Becoming consistent really was the king. For many many years,
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it was stop and go, stop and go, stop and go. It
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was, you know, okay, produced a couple of episodes, but then
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not taking the time to research the new guests to have those lined up to
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continue producing episodes. So it was, you know, it was getting pieces
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of the process in place, and as each piece kind of got molded and
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got you know, solidified, it was easier to move on to the next
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piece, and the final piece was kind of putting all of those pieces together
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to remain consistent. And once it became a consistent production of the show,
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that's when the audience really began to grow. That's when I could really see
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that the algorithms were picking it up and that there was a true audience behind
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the show itself. What was more important to you your expectations or the audience
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expectations? The audience definitely. I think, of course, when you start
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the show, it was nerve wracks and it was really central in your own
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head. You kind of stick to yourself. You're like, Okay, what
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should I be doing and blah blah. But once you stop and kind of
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reframe and look at what it is people are looking for the information on,
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you really start to listen to the audience themselves. Once the audience is there
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to listen to, then you can actually serve in a manner and understand what
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it is they're looking for and then kind of get it towards what they're looking
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for, which I think really helped to grow the show. You know,
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in the beginning, it was more what do I want to create an episode
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about? What do I what am I looking to create an episode about?
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You know it, versus what's going to serve the audience best? And angle
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will this episode take to help the audience the most? So I think that
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really was the catalyst for the change. Yeah, that that leads me to
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suits and other things, because because you hit the nail on the head,
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the audience is like I asked the question knowing that, knowing that did you
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were going to respond back with, Oh, the audience is what's more importantly,
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So research into the audience and research into how long did it how how
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long did it take you to get that part done? So did you knew
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you were going to attract you what you were doing is gonna what you were
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doing consistently would attract that audience. That's a really good question. That is
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a really really good question. In the beginning thing, I had absolutely no
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idea how I was going to pull it off, and I didn't actually have
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a plan for it either. Again, it was why of knowledge as to
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who I was even going to have on the show. So again, you
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know, this idea struck, decided to start it as a side project,
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and then it grew. But the way that I really solidified who the guests
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became was in the beginning. It was hours of research, hours and hours
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of research, which is partially why it was difficult to be, you know,
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remain consistent because amongst uh, you know, my clients themselves, I
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have a daughter, I'm married, you know, aside from life, it's
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not you know, really trying to take that extra time to do the research
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into the guests to make sure that the guests we're going to be serving the
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audience. It almost didn't exist in the beginning, and it was really difficult
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to find people and to find, you know, the right people to have
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as guests on the show. Over time, what I ended up doing was
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partnering with several public relations representatives. So these PR reps already have clients who
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have reputable practices, who are looking for that extra bit of marketing, who
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are looking to share their journey, and who are looking to provide that value
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to an audience. And those PR reps that have now partnered with can now
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bring their clients to the show to provide that aspect to them. So that's
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how I've now solidified the steady stream of guests that appear. Yeah, yeah,
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too. Leveraging is a good thing, right there, you go.
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Okay, I had to delegate that research out, you know, I had
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to get rid of it and get it off my plate. You know,
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I'm sure anybody from my audience, if they happen to be checking up this
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episode, they'll they'll be very familiar with you know, the four D strategy
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which I use my client is to delete, delegate, dominate, and delay,
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so we're either removing it from our plates, handing it off the tools
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tech, or a team member streamlining it in any way shape possible, whether
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that means you know, batching or somethinging or scheduling it out so that we
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have a designated time and date that we're managing things. And with the free
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strategy, it was, you know, one of those pieces that really helped
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for me to look at the show and say, Okay, what pieces of
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the show do I really need to hang on to and what pieces of the
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process can I really delegate out? And how can I go about delegating those
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pieces out without taking on yet another enormous factor in my own practice. So
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definitely partnering with your resources and knowing you know what those resources are and who
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they are is very important on this journey. And so by partnering with several
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different bureau firms, I now have you know, a steady stream of guests
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for the show without my having to invest as much research as I once was.
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So right that leads to the next question of message, because you you
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covered a lot of a lot of those little itty bitty questions in that well
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what are you trying to teach people. What do you want them to learn?
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It's the journey. The thing of the show is to hear the journey,
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find the challenges, and create solutions. So really, my hope is
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that the show is bringing the entrepreneurial journey to the average person to make them
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recognize we're all average people. Entrepreneurs are not amazing, you know, we're
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not wizards. We don't have match bands, although I loved one. We
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don't know that we are average people. Were you know, we for the
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grocery store or well, I used to. Now I order everything off for
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Amazon. For god, I say, thanks the pandemic, but for lordless,
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we're people. We do the same things that other people do, you
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know, And I think sometimes it's funny, but people seem to think that
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entrepreneurs have like some secret trick that they've used, and it's really not.
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It's a decision making process. It's a decision to make the decisions in your
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life, to take ownership and control over your life. For one reason or
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another. Unfortunately, a lot of the entrepreneurial journeys that I've heard of have
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been birthed out of some sort of trauma. You know, I myself,
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as I mentioned, was you know, my journey was birthed out of the
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fact that I was diagnosed with Crumb's disease and at the time, I was
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put on an unpaid medical leave with a young child. And as you can
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imagine, that's not something you can sit back and wait for someone to decide
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that you're capable of creating an income again. You kind of have to take
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charge of life. And that's really what the journey of entrepreneurship is really all
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about. It's about taking control of your journey and directing it in the manner
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that you want for to go. And my hope is that the show is
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really showing the reality of that, what the journey likes, whether it be
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the hiccups or the sunshine, you know, the highlight it's and what it
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is that can help them throughout the journey. And then the close of the
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show, I'm really hoping is allowing for other entrepreneurs to see what kind of
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challenges might truly exist in other spaces industries that they're not thinking of that they
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might have an idea to resolve, whether it be a SaaS model or something
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to that effect, a business idea that they can then take on as their
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own entrepreneurial journey and kind of inspire the next phase for somebody else. And
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you know, we never know where those ideas come from. We never know
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when they're going to be sparked and for who or over what, And if
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the show can hopefully provide that opportunity for somebody to hear something that that piques
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their ear to the next great business idea, that's that's what the show is
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there for. Well in oh, I clicked over in It's not what I
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wanted to see. Oops, yeah, it is. Actually I think it
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is here in the because I used part of part of your of your notes
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and to introduce you to the show. And there was a creator in here,
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Bernard Schooner, PhD. And he created and you and you had him
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on your show as yes, creative talent. Yes, Bernard was such a
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great guest. That was an outstanding opportunity to chat with him. He actually
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started off right here in Massachusetts when he you know, was putting that together
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and that was it was funny. I happened to run into a magazine article
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that had Bernard Schooner for a completely alternate reason. Mind you and you'll you'll
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so appreciate this, Michael. And this is precisely what I mean about,
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like the entrepreneur journey and being introduced to the most random ideas in the most
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random moments. So I studied violin for eleven years of New England Conservatory.
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Bernard Tunor was in a magazine posing with an electrical violin, first one I
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had ever laid eyes on. I didn't even know they existed. I was
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so blown away by the picture. I had to figure out who he was,
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get in touch with him and do the research. Little did I know
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this is the you know, creator of the RFI D chip which we all
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use googly. He had this point in time, you know, and so
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it was just he happened to be here in the city of Boston doing a
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presentation. I you know, took a couple of minutes to pop over to
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the presentation and introduce myself and just asked him if he wanted to be a
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part of the show. And he literally was like my third or fourth person
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to ever interview. I can't even tell you how how nervous I was during
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that show when when they pop up like that, because you can't let them
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see it, see you can't let the audience see the nerves on camera.
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So how do you exactly how do you do that? How do you control
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it? Breathe? I breathe a lot. Now I slow down. There
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was a point in time if you look at my older episodes and so forth,
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or original interviews and pick to or I used to talk a mile a
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minute and sometimes I still do. And that's how you can tell when the
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anxiety is kicking up. So that's a hint to anybody you will ever evened
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out my joke. If you hear me speaking three hundred miles a minute,
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that's that's me having that that raised anxiety level. So is it hidden?
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No? Is it one hundred percent controlled? No, not by a long
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shot. But is it something that other people would recognize? Howd I not?
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And shouldn't it? No? Right exactly, So you just smile,
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smile and breathe, Guys, solid takeure you sound like what is that movie?
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Madagascar? Smile, breath, Well, okay, it sounds like it
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sounds like Bernard Woods was probably one of the highlights, one of the better
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better moments of your show, regardless of the anxiety building up or not building
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up. What was what was one of the hardest interviews that you ever had
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to do because it was you're just trying to drag drag it out of the
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person. Hardest interview probably was one in which never was air. Mhmm.
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Let just we would leave it at that. I think I think there's there's
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definitely have been numerous difficult interviews, and yeah, I agree, they're the
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more difficult ones are the ones where you're pulling that that response out, where
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you're helping to carry the story. Especially because my show is really designed to
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share the entrepreneurial journey, I'm opening it up for people to share their story.
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So when I'm asking questions of my guests, I'm generally looking for them
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to share that story. And I've definitely had guests who come to the show
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and the answer is a yes or no response, and I'm not really sure
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how they are going to be capable of sharing a story with yes or no
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responsive alone. So those those do turn into the pulling of the information.
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I think there's also been interviews where I personally have had you know, bouts
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of cross moments during the episodes and I've had to literally like pause, excuse
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myself, tell my guests, how sorry, I am of the moment that
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I'm managing, you know, and these things do happen. And that's something
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else that I look the audience and people understand when it comes to the entrepreneurial
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journey. Life is life, and you've got to move through life the way
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you can move through life. There's definitely moments, so you know, craziness
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that occur, and not everybody's perfect. Not everybody's journey is going to be
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perfect. My journey definitely has been far from what anybody would be able to
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consider perfect. But I think definitely the more difficult episodes either get kind of
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shelved because I know that they're not really going to serve the audience in the
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way that they should, or the you know, audio on my end is
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just horrific and I am not you know, capable of getting somebody to repair
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it for whatever reason. Yeah, those would be the the more difficult and
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the harder of the episodes. I would say. Yeah, you say you
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said about crones, right, And one of the one of the shows that
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we have on our end is is about human rights, and we use it
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to try to advocate for for people, especially people that have a disability.
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Now some would say that crones is a disability and you describe it slightly,
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is that although you kind of glossed over it, you do, we haven't
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really gone it dug a hole in it, the whole Crowns thing. So
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how do you how do you deal with it? If you have a flare
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up? How do you how do you continue on with the show? Truly,
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if there's a flare in the midst of an episode, that's that's very
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different. I may very much so pause and tell my guests that we'll come
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back to recording at a later date and time, right, But the way
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that I maintain the consistency now is by planning, preparing, and keeping it
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produced foreign advance, So recording the episodes and having them produced long before they're
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actually going to be aired on TV, so they may be scheduled out three,
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four or five months in advance. So even if I am having a
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heckup of more than enough time to come back and get the next episode out
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and done, that's you know what, My hat's off to you on that
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one, because I know I know how you just start to build get that
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backlog built up, and it's like, uh, which is yeah, the
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backlog in this particular case is not necessarily a bad things just right. Like
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the other day, for us, we had somebody in New York City.
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He was doing a butt launch, and we realized that he had got caught
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up in the backlog and that we were actually going to we were recording the
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show like days before his book launch, and it was important to get to
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show out the day before the book launched. Right, It's like, okay,
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so all right, we gotta we gotta figure this out. Guys,
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how do we do this? Yeah? So, so the backlogs is a
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good thing in one respect, but it can be like how do you how
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do you decide who to push to the front of line if you have to,
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or who to like, Okay, this one can wait. Well.
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I produced on a bi monthly basis, so as I record, people are
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stuggled. So people once I do the recording, they generally receive their air
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date within forty eight hours of the recording being recorded, so that this way
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they know where their episode will fall and then they can let me know if
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there's a specific date that they like to align it with. And because the
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produced on a bi weekly day, it's somewhat easy for me to just push
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an episode to an alternate date, and if me be if there is somebody
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that happens to have an episode that I do need to, you know,
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alternate an alternate episode four, I generally will reach out to the alternate guest
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and just make sure that there's nothing that they were particularly looking to align it
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with so that I can go ahead and move that alternate episode. So,
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whether it's myself or an ADMIN that might reach out to make the scheduling,
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you know, there's generally a consideration if in fact, somebody mentioned that during
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the time of their recording. If we've recorded the episode and produced the episode,
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it's pretty much scheduled and done, and you know, at that point
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it's really aligned with my production schedule versus where they'd like to see the episode
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go. So it's really dependent on whether or not we're given the information pre
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production, right, Yeah, that makes sense. The question that I have
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have next though, is how do you how do you how do you screen
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people out? What? What what did your process look like to screen people
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in or screen them out? So originally the process was just research in general.
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Then the process became the uh, I've actually placed a paywall in front
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of the show in front of the actual sign up heage to become a guest.
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This way, not everybody could just jump up and want and and become
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a guest. It wasn't really to monetize the show. It was to prevent
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people from jumping onto the show. So that's one of the first ways that
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I started screening from there. Again, it would be you know, I
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might have people pop on at the schedule once in a BlueMoon, but again,
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it was difficult to really take the time to screen through every single person
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that might actually sign up, even if there was the paywall. And that's
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what reverted me to hiring an admin and actually been partnering with the PR firms
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because now the PR firms have actually done all of that research and homework and
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they're aligning their client with the show because they know that it's a good match
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and they already have the description and the understanding of what my show's looking for.
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So it's a far easier scenario now than it once was. Yeah,
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they have somebody else prevent them for you, guess. Yeah, yeah,
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definitely definitely one end of percent delegate that job out, so guys, someone
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out, you don't need to hold on that one at all. You might
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knows the show, but you don't need to sit around when to do the
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research of the guest promises prevention of nightmares is better than trying to put out
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the fire of the of the nightmare, right, yes, yeah, exactly.
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What's if there if there was a a earth shattering or community driven message,
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what would it be? Start now, be patient, believe in yourself.
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I think those are the most important things that I've heard throughout my own
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journey and the most important people that I were. Currently I'm telling others on
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a regular basis, Start it now, don't wait, don't wait, because
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they eventually most people get that itch at some point deadly. Be boersistent,
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be patient, Know that that these journeys take a lot of time, a
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lot of time. The patience is the most important piece. And know that
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you know you think you can, ever think you can't. Either way,
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you're right. Just know that you can and continue, right you know,
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yeah, that is very true. You know the results are are are between
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our two years exactly. As an entrepreneur, you know, we we have
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this this this ability and also the responsibility to make certain changes and to help
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our community grow and at times maybe even mold that big view of of our
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of our world in our universe. Well, what are you trying to mold
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our world to look like? Especially considering you have children, what are you
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trying to do? What are you trying to make our world look like?
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I would love to see independence be something that everyone can enjoy. I feel
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very strongly that we are all very much so capable of managing and creating our
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own abundance in life in one way shape perform. Not everyone's is going to
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be the same, but I think there's opportunity in the same age unlike there
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has ever been obviously thanks to the advance instance of technology, and if you
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are patient and just get started, you can kind of take control over your
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own future and your own journey. And I really want to see more people
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capable of doing so, and capable of enjoying the lifestyle that is that comes
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along with the entrepreneurial journey overall. So I'm blessed to admit that thus far,
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I feel like I'm doing a decent job. And my daughter is well
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on her way to being an artist. She is graduating college this year with
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her doctorate in photography, art history, and painting. So I'm super excited
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about that, and she's already doing commission works and things of that sort,
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so I clearly have inspired started something. Now I just need to make it
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that much bigger, so we'll see. There you go, there you go,
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all right. So best ways to find your show at Loiebrooks dot net.
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You can find us on Amazon or Roku if you just tell your remote
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to turn on the Small Business of Lorie Brooks Show, or pop over to
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YouTube. We're on all platforms. We're also on all of the podcast platforms
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as well, so pretty much anywhere I just looked for Loriebrooks dot net.
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Yeah all right, And if we wanted to work with you, how will
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we do that again? Just popping over to Lorriebrooks dot net, or you
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can go to links dot Loriebrooks dot net and my calendar is on either page.
41:45
You can always just pop on. Pre Consulting Fridays are every Friday's on
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Geneva in my small business community over there, and I usually try to do
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three to four pm where I give free advice and feedback and help on whatever
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those marketing pieces and so forth might be. So definitely don't have state to
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join the community. Pop on over on Fridays. I'd love to see you
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guys there. And yeah, other than that, Laurie Brooks Dott Yeah all
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right, so thank you, Thank you Lorie, and thank you everybody for
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because hey, she needs listeners too. Just the same. Oh, Mike,
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are you upstanding? Thank you, Thank you so much for having me
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today. I really enjoyed chat. You know, it's been a lot of
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fun. All right, thank you everybody, see you later. I don't
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know so I reform action when say miss days, I listen to shake me
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